Reading Comprehension Strategies

______________________ is a strategy in which a reader pays attention to the parts of a text he or she does and does not understand.

• Monitoring comprehension

• Annotating

• Rereading

• Reading comprehension

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Collecting relevant information as you read can help you understand and build on information that is introduced earlier in the text pertains to what type of reading comprehension strategy?

• Visualizing

• Making Connections

• Synthesizing

• Making and Confirming Predictions

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Asking questions before, during, and after reading allows you to identify areas where comprehension can be improved so that you can acquire useful information as you read.

• Visualizing

• Setting a Purpose for Reading

• Generating Questions

• Making and Confirming Predictions

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

When an author doesn’t explicitly state ideas, making inferences allows you to interpret a text’s hidden meaning.

• Visualizing

• Making Connections

• Making Inferences

• Making and Confirming Predictions

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

As you read Antigone by Sophocles, predict how Creon might react if he discovers Antigone’s plan to bury Polyneices. Predict also how this potential reaction influences Antigone’s character and drives the plot.

What type of reading strategy is used in the annotation above?

• Visualizing

• Setting a Purpose for Reading

• Generating Questions

• Making and Confirming Predictions

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

As you read “A Voice” by Pat Mora, envision the “meat, potatoes, and gravy” and compare them to the “rose powder” and “flatbed truck” to feel the sharp divide between the two cultures in which the narrator’s family lives.

What type of reading strategy is used in the annotation above?

• Visualizing

• Making Connections

• Making Inferences

• Making and Confirming Predictions

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Sometimes a text will give a lot of information. Evaluating details that are most important or significant can help you understand a text’s main ideas or themes.

The purpose above pertains to what type of reading comprehension strategy?

• Monitoring comprehension

• Annotating

• Synthesizing

• Evaluating Details

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

______________________is the practice of highlighting and writing down notes about a text directly on the text itself.

• Monitoring comprehension

• Annotating

• Rereading

• Reading comprehension

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Women around the world struggle for equality. Use new information presented in Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s “Remarks at the UN General Assembly” to increase your understanding of women’s challenges and progress across the globe.

The example above pertains to what type of reading comprehension strategy?

• Monitoring comprehension

• Annotating

• Synthesizing

• Evaluating Details

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

______________________is a comprehension strategy that involves reading a sentence, paragraph, or section of text again if a reader initially did not understand it.

• Monitoring comprehension

• Annotating

• Rereading

• Reading comprehension

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10